This essay discusses how criminal subjectivities are produced within the context where we live. Strategies of this contemporary force diagram are proposed, stemming from the idea of "criminality device", such as fear/cornering, mistrust/disassociation, and violence/nonexistence of meaning for action. The effects of the criminality dispositive are, on one hand, subjectivities engaged on the belief of identities/essences of inferior people and true people; and on the other hand on discourses about public safety and risk situation. The mechanisms that influence the criminality dispositive integrate prisons, social projects for poor children, public policy, etc.
criminality; prisons; risk situations; subjectivity